Auditory task presentation reveals predominantly right hemispheric fMRI activation patterns during mental calculation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 431, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-44

  Fehr, Thorsten ^a,b   Code, Chris ^c,d   Herrmann, Manfred ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Complex mental processing; fMRI; Mental arithmetic; Mental calculation; Task presentation modalities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARITHMETIC; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HEARING; HEMISPHERE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; COGNITION; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MATHEMATICS; MENTAL PROCESSES; NERVE NET; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSERVER VARIATION;

EID: 38049054103     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.11.016     Document Type: Article

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